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NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!'
"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...
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How the Discovery of Uranus 240 Years Ago Doubled the Size of the Solar System
Uranus' accidental discovery 240 years ago greatly enhanced our understanding of the solar system, doubling the size of the ...
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Bennu isn't likely to hit Earth - but if it did, here's what would happen
(One astronomical unit, or AU, is the average Earth-Sun distance of 93 million miles [150 million kilometers]). The space rock was "tagged” by OSIRIS-REx mission in 2020, when the craft briefly ...
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Mercury and Saturn alignment tonight is ‘unique.’ Here’s why
Mercury measures at almost half of one astronomical unit between the sun and Earth (the distance between Earth and the sun being one astronomical unit), NASA stated. Meanwhile, Saturn is 9.5 ...